Teaching Resources

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Business and Peacebuilding

Resources for teachers seeking to introduce the topic of business and peacebuilding include commentary from the academic literature on peacebuilding, transitional justice and business and human rights; as well as materials on the role of business in specific zones of conflict and post-conflict situations, such as government reports, national legislation, and business case studies.

Teaching resources on business and peacebuilding in Colombia are highlighted below.

  • Readings
  • Videos
  • Exercises
  • Websites

    • Readings

    Commentary

    • J. J. Andersson, T. Evers, and G. Sjöstedt, Private Sector Actors & Peacebuilding: A Framework for Analysis (Swedish Institute of International Affairs, 2011), https://www.ui.se/globalassets/ui.se-eng/publications/other-publications/private-sector-actors–peacebuilding.pdf.
    • K. Ballentine and V. Haufler. Public Policy for Conflict-Sensitive Business (New York: UN Global Compact, 2009), https://d306pr3pise04h.cloudfront.net/docs/issues_doc%2FPeace_and_Business%2FEnabling_Economies_2009.pdf.
    • J. Banfield, C. Cündüz, and N. Killick (eds.). Local Business, local Peace. The peacebuilding potential of the domestic private sector (London: International Alert, 2006), www.international-alert.org/publications/local-business-local-peace.
    • M. Blowfield and C.S. Dolan. Business as a Development Agent: Evidence of Possibility and Improbability. Third World Quarterly (v. 35, n. 1, 2014), 22–42.
    • P. Collier, V.L. Elliot, H. Hegre, A. Hoeffler, M. Reynal-Querol and N. Sambanis. Civil war as development in reverse. In Breaking the conflict trap: Civil war and development policy. A World Bank Policy Research Report. (New York: World Bank and Oxford University Press, May 2003). .
    • B. Ganson. Business in Fragile Environments: Capabilities for Conflict Prevention, Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, (v.7, n. 2, 2014), 121–139.
    • S. Ghimire and Bishnu Raj Upreti. Corporate Engagement for Conflict Transformation: Conceptualising the Business-Peace Interface. Journal of Conflict Transformation and Security (v. 2, n. 1, 2012), 77–100.
    • D. Haski-Leventhal, Editorial: From CSR and CSV to Business and Peace Business, Peace and Sustainable Development (n. 4, 2014), 3-6.
    • International Alert. 2015. Peace through Prosperity Integrating peacebuilding into economic development (London: International Alert), http://www.international-alert.org/sites/default/files/Economy_PeaceThroughProsperity_EN_2015.pdf
    • A. Kolk, and F. Lenfant. Partnerships for peace and development in fragile states: Identifying missing links, The Academy of Management Perspectives (v. 29, n. 4, 2015), 422-437.
    • C. McEwan, E. Mawdsley, G. Banks, and R. Scheyvens. Enrolling the Private Sector in Community Development: Magic Bullet or Sleight of Hand? Development and Change (v. 48, n. 1, 2017), 28–53.
    • J. Miklian, The Dark Side of New Business. Harvard International Review (v. 38, n. 4, 2017), 19-22.
    • ———. The Role of Business in Sustainable Development and Peacebuilding: Observing Interaction Effects. Business and Politics (v. 21, n. 4, 2019), 569–601.
    • J. Miklian, J. and J. P. Medina-Bickel. Theorizing Business and Local Peacebuilding through the ‘Footprints of Peace’ Coffee Project in Rural Colombia. Business & Society (V. 59, n. 4, 2020), 676–715.
    • J. Nelson. The Business of Peace. The private sector as a partner in conflict prevention and resolution. The Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum (London: International Alert, Council on Economic Priorities, 2000), http://www.international-alert.org/sites/default/files/publications/The%20Business%20of%20Peace.pdf.
    • J. Oetzel and M. Breslauer. The Business & Economics of Peace. Business, Peace and Sustainable Development (n. 6, 2015), 3–8.
    • J. Oetzel, M. Westermann-Behaylo, C. Koerber, T.L. Fort and J. Rivera. Business and Peace: Sketching the Terrain. Journal of Business Ethics (V. 89, n. 4, 2009), 351-373.
    • L. Payne, G. Pereira and L. Bernal-Bermúdez. Transitional Justice and Corporate               Accountability from Below: Deploying Archimedes’ Lever (Cambridge: Cambridge     University Press, 2020).   
    • L. Payne, G. Pereira, L. Bernal-Bermúdez and J. Doz-Costas. Can a    Treaty on                   Business and Human Rights help Achieve Transitional Justice Goals? Revista                  Internacional de Dereitos Humanos e Empresas (v.1, n. 1, 2017).
    • I. Pietropaoli, Business, Human Rights and Transitional Justice (New York: Routledge, 2020).
    • M. Prandi and J. Lozano. La RSE en contextos de conflicto y postconflicto: de la gestión del riesgo a la creación de valor (Barcelona: Escola de Cultura de Pau (UAB)/ Instituto de Innovación Social (ESADE), 2010), https://escolapau.uab.cat/img/programas/derecho/webRSE.pdf
    • A. Wenger and D. Mockli. Conflict Prevention: The Untapped Potential of the Business Sector (Boulder: Lynne Reinner Publishers, 2003).

    Commentary – Colombia

    Legal Cases

    • JEP, Appealing Chamber, Auto TP-SA 019/2018.
    • JEP, Appealing Chamber, Auto TP-SA 020/2018.
    • JEP, Appealing Chamber. TP-SA-SENIT 1 de 2019.

    Statutes

    • Peace Agreement, 2016.
    • Law 1957/2019 (JEP Statutory Law)

    UN Materials

    • Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations ‘Protect, Respect and Remedy’ Framework, Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises,” UN doc. A/HRC/17/31 (21 March 2011).

    Videos

    • El rol de las empresas en la construcción de paz
    • ¿Cómo medir si las empresas le aportan a la construcción de paz?
    • Así se construye paz desde las empresas. Part I
    • Así se construye paz desde las empresas. Part II
    • Hay Festival – “2016 retos y beneficios del año de la paz”

    Teaching Cases

    • Footprints for Peace (FOP) – Peacebuilding project by the Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia (FNC) (Colombia) (Miklian and Medina, 2020)
    • Heineken in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Miklian, 2019)
    • United Nations Global Compact in Dubai (Miklian, 2019)
    • Ecopetrol Museum (Colombia)
    • Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM) (Colombia) (Hoelscher, 2019)

    [*] This bibliography may be cited as:

    Carolina Olarte-Bácares, Laura Bernal-Bermúdez, Marco Velásquez Ruiz, and Jose Fernando Gómez Rojas, “Teaching Resources: Business and Peacebuilding,” in Teaching Business and Human Rights Handbook (Teaching Business and Human Rights Forum, 2021), https://teachbhr.org/resources/teaching-bhr-handbook/teaching-notes/business-and-peacebuilding/teaching-resources/.